The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1887-10-09
HOWNEw YORK CITY GROWS.
TBu. LIVES hLoxe wHICH THB T0WU
RUNS NORTHWARD

side Terrace and tho View Frora 1t-saii-
roads Over the IHerieu--A Ceniss Tunnei.
The city Of New York In Its march north
ward from the Battery, intoxicated, apparent
", with it's prosperity. has never seemed able
10 move in direct line. It has gone stagger-
ing from east eide to west side. back and forth.
sometimes pointing for Washington square,
then for Second avenueiand Stuyvesant square
then for Madison square and the open heids
TO the west and northwest Of this point, and
then again back to the east side along Madi-
aon Lexington, Fourth. Third, and Second
avenues toward its apparent objective point
on tho Harlem River. But still, like the Inc
briatc, conscious OF his condition and his need
for supporting lamp posts and palings, 1t has
held on. always with moro or less tenacity. to
Fifth avenue. and made 1t sort OF chalk line
which Il was endeavoring to follow. Tho lurch
lust now Is heavily to the westward OF Fifth
avenue, and covers all that territory between
Fifty-ninth and 10th streets west OF Central
Park, and the low flats to the northwest.
now city. subject to the jurisdiction OF the
City Hall, It is true. but still new city. has
sprung up west Of Central Park during the
past two years. It Is not finished city. 1t
lacks churches, school buildings, meat mar
kets groceries, and places OF refreshment. II
often lacks paved streets and sewers, too, and
within view is sometimes obscured by clouds
OF floating dust that suggest the benefit OF blue
goggles. But there is q great pile Of brand
new houses nevertheless, and they are pretty
generally full Of people who look like New
Workers externally. and may in time learn to
assimilate. But for the present they must be
regarded as belonging to some new and fan
tastical nationality with which New Workers
have not yet opened diplomatic Intercourse.
They are strange people, who have made for
themselves new surroundings as utterly un-
like anything else to be seen in New York as q
Tho architecture Of this new city is some.
thing to awaken varied emotions;, The first
smSp I ps to BE t Ct Ssa Ths
ever exactly repeating himself, except in the
the O. wSs Side Thsr work dees
classification. They start with the assumption
constrnc ton of house arc four Walls and
roof and from this basic idea they have evolved
more curious than we're dis
So much Beauty ' as orisinsfy The Charge q
Was not 10 be repeated on the west side. even
II to avoid the fault they were compelled to
Sd ssas sRd baans Sr ss hs s
building adjacent as possible. They get vari.
deal Of inconeraity. The fault Is Greater than
5 .s Sp see esa %aas
Cd Cd buildings built Without reference to each
sRsn ba
dral made up in different parts Of Gothic, Gre
pect to have Il scommended By good taste
ceive OF the roof Of st. Patricks Cathedral, on
Fifth avenue. supported along the nave byCorin.
1, in,p fN1 nnnt no IN
on the other. the roof itself being surmounted
by a cupola or dome, and you may have a fair
combinations on the west Side. In tho begin.
ming the new departure promised well, put
has %
to divide the blocks into sections. ench group
Of houses in block being separated from the
mark the division, and built upon 3 general
plan. In that way It would be possible to have
charaste W a1d thus to escape monotony. But
nsss sHs s sovS
ness and repose. The. buildings on the east
snd Madson Gem
trail Park. becomes street Of veritable palaces.
ss assRss f not ths 2R sSusay w tn
buildings. Stone and marble cutting are ex-
truly artistic sense. and when cheap ornamen-.
tation is used too profusely 1t is apt to suggest
ieweiry. About the straining after quaint
elsewhere. it Will probably be best to have little
Ensh but be psssins
this country is large enough to have everything
Passing up from the new west side City you
reach Mornineside Park, or rather Morning.
sas Ss and ns d BS Se oark to
ment OF the Imagination not yet realized In
any objective form. and offering an illustration
Be- or nsgectod Nexe to getting
possession OF the land the most important
Il paGk Ru xst Is to Pfnt s s
though men have come to maturity and grown
gray since It was opened to the public. Ittakss
ton. and It is unjust to posterity to give Il q
park foT which It wiz US, usually be expected to
the seI shade. n Morninsside PaFR refnaiDs only
bald hillside without a suggestion, Of any i'm
be much of q park: but what little It may con-
tain should be put in training ut once and al
., But what magnificent, view one has from rom
ON hs fhe
from this point OF observation may be read to
mean either the lands or the houses. Below
six story buildings. and beyond stretch. the
distance, the shores OF Long lSianu ltbelI. a
ten:story apartment house, more or less, was
projected on the summit Of this bluff q number
OF years ago, and, were 1t built, there Is no GER
tainty that, from its roof, we could not look
down upon Boston. But. somehow, In the
great cities the most slightly places Are the last
mains, like the drive along Riverside Park.
thoroughtare only OF great future possibilities.
Men like to be comfortable, and they will seek
the low and level places first.
=, We seem to be well up town here: but were
New York an orb this would be only at the
equator. The city extends from this point as
far to the northward as to the southward, and
we have hardly yet reached the centre OF the
avenues that stretch from the Harlem River to
Central Park. or run in continuous lines past
Central Park to the lower sections Of the city;
avenue of the West side. Unlike Third avenue,
II has not yet crossed the Harlem and pushed
its lines oyer the new wards but 1t is becom-
ing a solid business avenue through almost its
known, II i could; as Central Park. West Its
or two has been surprisingly rapid.
All this does not touch the question OF back
bone. All vertebrate animals, except men.
have baekbones necessarily, and a longitude
nal city like New. York may be expected to de-
velop some line OF unusual Justification through